Inma Sánchez García is Teaching Fellow in Intermediality Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she convenes and delivers courses on global Shakespeare, film adaptation, and intermediality. Prior to joining Edinburgh, she taught at Newcastle University and completed her PhD at Northumbria University. Her book –Shakespeare in European Cinema: Borders, Thresholds, Connections – is contracted with Palgrave Macmillan and examines Shakespeare’s role as a symbol of transnational identity across European filmic cultures, questioning the varied ways in which Shakespeare has been mobilized as so-called marker of civilization, integration and democracy, from a feminist and decolonial perspective.
Her research on filmic Shakespeare has been published in SEDERI, Cahiers Élisabéthains, and Shakespeare Jahrbuch, and she has two chapters forthcoming in edited collections – one on intermediality as a learning method and another one on Shakespeare and queer cinema. Reflecting the importance of feminist and queer concerns in her research, her work has also appeared in the International Encyclopaedia of Gender, Media and Communication, and she co-leads the Feminist and Queer Research workgroup within NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). She has been invited as keynote speaker in India, Mexico, Spain, and the UK, and is part of the international research project ‘Shakespeare, Activism and the Arts in the 21st Century Shakespeare’ funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Research interests
My current research focuses on queer adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare’s works across contemporary cinemas. I am interested in how Shakespeare can function as catalyst for activism and social change, with a particular interest in transnational screen cultures. Beyond Shakespeare and film, my work also focuses on theories and practices of intermediality, and on its pedagogical potential. In broader terms, I am interested by the potentiality of the in-between. My research sits at the intersection between languages, cultures, and media; focuses on tropes of migration and queer belonging; and, as such, I have a keen interest on critical theory that examines the concept of the border and questions of liminality and in-betweenness.